Forensic Charge Nurse - Lambourn House - Oxford
Band 6
Main area Forensic Mental Health Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (shift work: 07:00-15:00, 13:30-21:30, 21:00-07:15) Job ref 267-FS7072342
Site Lambourn House Pre -Discharge Unit, Littlemore Mental Health Centre Town Oxford Salary £37,338 - £44,962 plus an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum | pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 27/04/2025 23:59
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
Job overview
This role includes an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum on top of your salary
We're recruiting a Forensic Charge Nurse to join our team at Lambourn House in Littlemore, Oxford. You'll be working at our pre-discharge unit, which provides a unique mixed gender service in the forensic directorate with a total of 15 beds including 4 female patients.
Our team works closely with the forensic community team to support patients with a successful transition from hospital. Our forensic service focuses less on procedural and environmental security and more on relational security to enhance success of recovery journeys.
If you're a registered mental health nurse looking to further your career within a forensic setting, we'd love to hear from you!
This role involves shift work including 07:00-15:00, 13:30-21:30, 21:00-07:15 and two clinical support shifts of 09:00-17:00 per month.
Please note if you are based outside of the UK you will need to be fully qualified, have already passed your OSCE and have an NMC pin number in order to be considered for this role
Main duties of the job
* You'll be responsible as part of the multidisciplinary team for delivering specialist nursing care to patients.
* You will be expected to lead a team of nurses and support workers in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care to a group of patients. Where appropriate you will also act as a ‘named nurse’ for inpatients on the ward and take responsibility for their individual nursing care needs.
* You will support the ward manager in delivering the units objectives in terms of patient care, staff development and service development. You will be responsible for clinical leadership of the ward environment, working in a way that promotes the principles of recovery, to ensure individualised, safe and effective care provision for all patients.
* As a team leader you will need to articulate a clear vision of the standards expected within your team and actively contribute to a positive learning environment providing supervision and mentorship to qualified and unqualified staff including students.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
* Competitive pension scheme
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse Mental Health
Knowledge
* Thorough understanding of delivering mental health nursing within secure settings.
* Ability to identify the development needs of those in your team and Implement a plan to meet them
* Knowledge of safeguarding children and adults policy
* Knowledge of monitoring systems, targets and processes used within mental health
* Has previous experience in working as a staff nurse in forensic mental health care setting and/or a unit for women service users.
Further Training or Job related aptitude and skills
* Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks
* Ability to motivate service users
* Commitment to personalised, recovery-oriented care
* Excellent communication and presentational skills
* Effective leadership and motivational skills
* Respect for service users and a genuine enthusiasm for working with client group
* Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study.
* We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
* Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
* We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible.
* We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Kieran Dullaghan Job title Ward Manager Email address kieran.dullaghan@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk Telephone number 01865 902988
Alternative contact number: 01865 902056 (Nurse Office)
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
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